US is developing a gunship that could literally obliterate enemy ground targets with a laser beam.

Insight magazine ^

[jmcenanly]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571076/posts

How did you find out?

[Bon mots]

What is that a photo of?
What's coming out of the windows of that house, soap bubbles?

[Yo-Yo]

I'd be in favor of relaxing grooming restrictions so Marines could have beards and pony-tails.

If that happened, then how would you be abke to tell the Marines from the Sailors?

< DUCKS >

[semaj]

How about some ill-tempered SeaBass?

[Yo-Yo]

That's the final scene to "Weird Science" where Val Kilmer uses the airborne laser he was tricked into developing to pop some popcorn in his academic advisor's house.

[E.Allen]

The laser would be faster and easier to aim, just aim straight without compensating for time to target.

The psychological value would be substantial. I believe the laser is in the infra red region. Beam is invisible, target will flash heat to several thousand degrees almost instantaneously. Personnel would just disappear in a flash of superheated steam. Results should be similar to being placed in a large, very high power microwave oven.

[DarthVader]

The first version of the Deathstar.

[absolootezer0]

What is that a photo of? What's coming out of the windows of that house, soap bubbles?

POPCORN!! its from the end scene of real genius after val kilmer has hacked the tracking system for the goverment laser weapon he invented, and pointed it at his professor's house, which he had loaded with a bunch of unpopped popcorn.
gotta watch the movie.

[winner3000]

LOL! Dr. Evil is the first thing I thought of when I read the word "Laser"!!

[meanie monster]

[11Bush]

Flash is gonna lose.

Old 11c?

[kAcknor]

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." - Hans Solo

[joesnuffy]

Put one on station over our southern border....

[kAcknor]

Good time to get into the business of anti-laser defense systems.

Lasers are nice I guess. But like tracer rounds, they will always point two ways...

[oldenuff2no]

I have been involved with the military and weapons systems for many years. This new weapons system has my attention.
What a great way to clear streets of radical islamic rioters.
"Stand by captain,(big humming noise), problem solved."
I wonder if they would think allah was speaking to them.

[frgoff]

Same reason that Kamikaze pilots weren't that successful. All the good ones never made it through training.

[11Bush]

The psychological value would be substantial.

LOL. With a really big PA system screaming 'Allah is all kinds of pissed off at you people'.

[cchandler]

How hard is it to get sharks with friggin' laser beams attached to their friggin' heads!